Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...birth control methods acceptable to all nations and religions, this to be reached by international agreement safeguarded by regular inspection of the reproduction mechanism of the population bomb. I am for harmless cigarettes, still using the same old rich, flavorful tobacco. I am for a vigorous two-party system in which my party will control the White House, all the governorships and over 75% of Congress. > Wherever there is trouble I shall go -and I shall return...
...their biggest offensive since November, the Reds increased small-scale harassments and terrorism, launched a rapid-fire series of battalion-size attacks. In Vinh Long province, the Viet Cong murdered the mother of the army's intelligence chief for the southern Mekong Delta. In Saigon, a Communist-planted bomb exploded in the Playboy Bar, killing five Vietnamese and wounding 40 other patrons, including six Americans...
...WALLEYE is a nonnuclear, 1,000-lb. glide bomb that is simply dropped from an airplane-just as in World War II. After that the resemblance ends, for Walleye is one of the U.S.'s most sophisticated and accurate weapons. In its warhead it carries a television camera -aimed, of course, at the ground. As Walleye falls, the camera sends a picture of the target area back to a screen in the cockpit. The pilot focuses the target picture on his screen and by remote control locks the Walleye guidance system on the target at the same time. Billed...
...STRANGELOVE, OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB. Director Stanley (Lolita) Kubrick's nightmare comedy about nuclear annihilation is wildly satirical and brilliantly acted by George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden and (in a triple role) the protean Peter Sellers...
Stanley Kubrick, producer-director-writer of Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb," has turned the tables. Instead of enlisting the Bomb to save an inane movie, he has created a brilliant movie to save the human race from nuclear inanity. This brief, unnerving film rips windily through a whole forest of Cold war cliches, alternately rustling branches and toppling huge trunks. See-sawing giddiness and terror, "Dr. Strangelove" leaves its audiences smiling emptily. The mood suits Kubric's purpose superbly...